Are you familiar with the saying, "Man plans. God laughs.? Well, that has been my life over the past few weeks. Oh, I had plans! However, nothing has quite worked out as expected. It hasn't been all bad, mind you. It's just not the trajectory of getting things done that I had expected. All this to say, I have more photos than I know what to do with and yet very little time to actually sort and edit them. Ah well. Might as well start just one by one...

Last week I spent a few days up in the Japan Alps. One afternoon, while waiting for my lunch of soba noodles, I was served a cup of barley tea. I was struck by the lighting, the colours and the shapes and so, since no one was around except my patient husband, decided to take a photo. I'm very pleased with how it turned out.